Comparing Aesthetic Measures for Evolutionary Art

@InProceedings{Heijer:2010:EvoMUSART,
author = "E. {den Heijer} and A. E. Eiben",
title = "Comparing Aesthetic Measures for Evolutionary Art",
booktitle = "EvoMUSART",
year = "2010",
editor = "Cecilia {Di Chio} and Anthony Brabazon and
Gianni A. {Di Caro} and Marc Ebner and Muddassar Farooq and
Andreas Fink and Jorn Grahl and Gary Greenfield and
Penousal Machado and Michael O'Neill and
Ernesto Tarantino and Neil Urquhart",
volume = "6025",
series = "LNCS",
pages = "311--320",
address = "Istanbul",
month = "7-9 " # apr,
organisation = "EvoStar",
publisher = "Springer",
keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
isbn13 = "978-3-642-12241-5",
DOI = "doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12242-2_32",
annote = "The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives",
bibsource = "OAI-PMH server at citeseerx.ist.psu.edu",
language = "en",
oai = "oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.462.9840",
rights = "Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as
the oai identifier remains attached to it.",
URL = "http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.462.9840",
size = "10 pages",
abstract = "In this paper we investigate and compare four
aesthetic measures within the context of evolutionary
art. We evolve visual art with an unsupervised
evolutionary art system using genetic programming and
an aesthetic measure as the fitness function. We
perform multiple experiments with different aesthetic
measures and examine their influence on the evolved
images. To this end we store the 5 fittest individuals
of each run and hand-pick the best 9 images after
finishing the whole series. This way we create a
portfolio of evolved art for each aesthetic measure for
visual inspection. Additionally, we perform a
cross-evaluation by calculating the aesthetic value of
images evolved by measure i according to measure j.
This way we investigate the flexibility of each
aesthetic measure (i.e., whether the aesthetic measure
appreciates different types of images). The results
show that aesthetic measures have a rather clear style
and that these styles can be very different.
Furthermore we find that some aesthetic measures show
very little flexibility and appreciate only a limited
set of images.",
notes = "EvoMUSART'2010 held in conjunction with EuroGP'2010
EvoCOP2010 EvoBIO2010",
}